Yorkshire Ripper ‘will never be released’

YORKSHIRE Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, whose notorious murder campaign caused “widespread and permanent harm to the living”, will never be released, a judge ruled yesterday.

The serial killer of 13 women must serve a “whole life” tariff, said Mr Justice Mitting, announcing his decision at the High Court in London.

His judgment was welcomed by Richard McCann, whose mother Wilma was one of the victims of Sutcliffe’s reign of terror.